Kchinnam, you are seeing the newlines ('\n") in your od output because you are using the echo command to pipe the variable in question to od. The echo command adds a newline to its output by design.
Try the following example
Here is the output from this example
How to write this condition in ksh?
if myfile is empty or myfile does not exist
then
do action1
fi
is this OK?
if ] -o ] then
then
do action1
fi
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Hi,
Plz suggest me how can i change the date of a file.
Suppose my file has been created in some date and i want to give it present date.
How can i do this???? (2 Replies)
hi all,
i want use the variable value as a new variable name. print output of new variable.
for i in COMPUTER1 COMPUTER2
do
flag_name=${i}_FLAG
eval ${flag_name}=123
echo $i'_FLAG'
done
output is
COMPUTER1_FLAG
COMPUTER2_FLAG
i need output as
123
123 (2 Replies)
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Hi.
How to change string variable in awk?
for example, I parse with awk script text file named some_name_with_extension.txt
I want to print only some_name in my script
....
varCompName = FILENAME
print varCompName
How to put not all symbols from FILENAME to variable?
thank you
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Hey Guys,
I have text such as this.
28003,ALCORN,2
28009,BENTON,2
28013,CALHOUN,2
28017,CHICKASAW,2
47017,CARROLL,2
05021,CLAY,0
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hostname="network"
ip="192.168.1.1"
netmask=""
variables=( $hostname $ip $netmask )
for var in ${variables}
do
if ; then
$var="--"
fi
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Hi,
This is the first time I see something like this, and I don't why it happens.
Please give me some help. I am really appreciate it.
Basically I am trying to remove all empty lines of an input..
#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -x
str1=`echo -e "\nhaha" | grep -v ^$`
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I have a file hello.txt which was created today (today's date timestamp)
I wish to change its date timestamp (access, modified, created) to 1 week old i.e one week from now.
uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4v sparc sun4v
Can you please suggest a easy way to do that ? (12 Replies)
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echo
ECHO(1) BSD General Commands Manual ECHO(1)NAME
echo -- write arguments to the standard output
SYNOPSIS
echo [-n] [string ...]
DESCRIPTION
The echo utility writes any specified operands, separated by single blank (' ') characters and followed by a newline ('
') character, to the
standard output.
The following option is available:
-n Do not print the trailing newline character. This may also be achieved by appending 'c' to the end of the string, as is done by iBCS2
compatible systems. Note that this option as well as the effect of 'c' are implementation-defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
(``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002. Applications aiming for maximum portability are strongly encouraged to use printf(1) to sup-
press the newline character.
Some shells may provide a builtin echo command which is similar or identical to this utility. Most notably, the builtin echo in sh(1) does
not accept the -n option. Consult the builtin(1) manual page.
EXIT STATUS
The echo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO builtin(1), csh(1), printf(1), sh(1)STANDARDS
The echo utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002.
BSD April 12, 2003 BSD